Digitizing Type: RoboFont for Beginners

Got the sketches but don’t know how to go about digitizing and making a typeface in a font editor like RoboFont? We’ll help you import your drawings, setup a trial license of RoboFont and learn how to professionally draw, space and proof your font. This two-day workshop is for graphic designers, those interested in typeface design and those that are ready for a RoboFont refresher.

Required Materials

Mac OS X 10.9+

Adobe InDesign

Registration opens on January 4, 2018. Please join the mailing list for updates and reminders about classes, workshops, and free lectures.

Instructor:
Troy Leinster

Troy Leinster is an Australian typeface designer at Hoefler & Co in New York City. He holds a Masters Degree in Typeface Design from Type & Media program at The Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, and is a graduate of the first Type@Cooper Condensed Program in New York. At Hoefler & Co his projects have included retail typefaces such as the Ringside superfamily, Peristyle, Isotope and Operator Mono.